Monday, May 4, 2026

Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Jellybean Jars Were Also “Colorblind” – Why Some May 4th Celebrations Might Be Muted on Parlez Vous Monday And All the Other Days

 



 

I have heard a lot of reasons why people don’t seem to care about this

People are busy (with the two and three and eight jobs that are necessary in great part bc the people who are in charge of suppressing wages are the same people trying to take everyone’s rights)

People don’t believe their rights are affected because the people most immediately affected don’t look like them

People believe it’s “too complicated to care”

(and people are right that it’s not simple to understand, and that’s been engendered on purpose, and the people who would literally rule us *all* and take *all* our money do not want people to understand any of it, which is what some of us )

 

So I’m putting all these up because I don’t want people to have the excuse that “they didn’t have the information”




Why Would They Stop There?  - Lurie Daniel Favors




Confronting Callais - Modern Freedom Educators United to Fight For Democracy

Professors Carol Anderson, Kimberle Williams, Tim Wise, and Kaye Whitehead


Because that enables would-be fascists – who are so serious about THEIR missions that YIL that Russell Vought apparently got an advanced degree in African American studies to learn about how the Louisiana slave trade was dismantled so he could reverse engineer it (and a lot of that is in LDF’s talk today, but it’s also in Project 2025, which a lot of us asked everyone else to read before the 2024 Democratic National Convention) – to weaponize ignorance

 

And I don’t think that’s a state (or a nation-state) that any citizen of any supposedly “civilized’ nation wants to live in, whether they know it or not

 

I mean it with all sincerity when I say that on this Star Wars Day that I hope you all live long and prosper


Leader Stacy Abrams, also apparently acting President of the United Federation, reminds us they are doing this BECAUSE we are winning 





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